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Harvey and Grant LaFollette purchased 37,000 acres (150 km2) at Big Creek Gap, where the present community lies, around 1890. They founded the LaFollette Coal, Iron, and Railway Company in order to exploit mineral resources they had observed. Although the business failed during the 1920s, the community continued to grow.[4][5] The City of LaFollette was incorporated in 1897.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.9 square miles (13 km2), all land. The elevation varies around the city, around 1,150 feet (350 m) in the valley areas to 1,500 feet (460 m) on ridge tops. The average elevation is around 1,300 feet (400 m).

There were 3,422 households out of which 26.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.8% were married couples living together, 17.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.6% were non-families. 34.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 17.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.86.

In the city the population was spread out with 22.0% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 21.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 82.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 78.1 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $18,370, and the median income for a family was $24,235. Males had a median income of $25,541 versus $18,835 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,355. About 28.3% of families and 33.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 48.7% of those under age 18 and 21.1% of those age 65 or over.

BenMoser Since 1993, photojournalism students in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media have taken pictures of what life looks like in the small town of LaFollette, Tennessee. Students have spent thirty-six hours each spring capturing photo ...

Rhonda Daugherty, 49, vanished on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014, from her home in LaFollette, Tennessee. Her husband, Charles Daugherty, told police that he arrived home that evening to find the back door wide open. All of her belongings, including her ...

Kitts runs the "Search for Rhonda Kitts Daugherty LaFollette, Tennessee" Facebook page that provides updates on the search for Rhonda. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the Campbell County Sheriff's Office at (423) 562-7446.

Within a few years Hamblin was ordained (online), established his own congregation at the Tabernacle Church of God in LaFollette, Tennessee, and began handling some of North America's deadliest reptiles—timber rattlesnakes, water moccasins, ...

According to Rhonda's cousin Scott Kitts, the sheriff's office told him there is a vigilant search effort for Rhonda in nearby waters using sonar, cameras and divers. Kitts runs the "Search for Rhonda Kitts Daugherty LaFollette, Tennessee" Facebook ...

The show, produced by Pyro Shows of Lafollette, Tennessee, features 900 shells fired from the rooftop and several thousand devices off of the elevator shaft. Special music and rhythmic LED lights on the tower are choreographed for the fireworks.

Vann is wanted by the Campbell County Sheriff's Office for an armed robbery earlier this month in LaFollette, Tennessee. The former school teacher was being held in the Myrtle Beach Jail without bond pending a hearing before a judge. He is expected to ...

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